"While Franz Schubert's 'Grand Sonata' in B-flat, D. 617 may not attain the emotional profundity of his later sonata in the same key for piano solo, it is vintage Schubert, traversing the harmonic spectrum via strands of melody draped over throbbing repeated chords. Steigerwalt, in the second position (the lower half of the keyboard) controlled the pedal, keeping the textures dry and clear for Muller's tunes."